Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761410AbXLQNdg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:33:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756008AbXLQNd1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:33:27 -0500 Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.179]:52329 "EHLO mho-02-bos.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbXLQNd0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:33:26 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 216.15.117.105 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18IgTayfmpFmSdi63peyzl2 Message-ID: <47667A85.3080100@reed.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:32:53 -0500 From: "David P. Reed" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070727 Fedora/2.0.0.5-2.fc7 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rene Herman CC: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Paul Rolland , Alan Cox , Pavel Machek , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , rol@witbe.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. References: <20071215080831.404cdb32@tux.DEF.witbe.net> <47638C8C.2090604@gmail.com> <476438B4.2020600@zytor.com> <476462BE.3030701@gmail.com> <4764687D.6080609@zytor.com> <476524DB.7020806@gmail.com> <20071216152250.GA21245@elte.hu> <4765D43E.1010800@gmail.com> <20071217105744.GA14315@elte.hu> <4766684D.40202@gmail.com> <20071217130933.GB27992@elte.hu> <47667812.8050708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47667812.8050708@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 886 Lines: 16 Rene Herman wrote: > No, most definitely not. Having the user select udelay or none through > the kernel config and then the kernel deciding "ah, you know what, > I'll know better and use port access anyway" is _utterly_ broken > behaviour. Software needs to listen to its master. > When acting as an ordinary user, the .config is beyond my control (except on Gentoo). It is in control of the distro (Fedora, Ubuntu, ... but perhaps not Gentoo). I think the distro guys want a default behavior that is set in .config, with quirk overrides being done when needed. And of course the user in his/her boot params gets the final say. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/